[gentoo-user] Removing broken symbolic links

2003-07-04 Thread romildo
Hello.

What is an easy way of finding and removing broken
links in a given directory?

Romildo

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Re: [gentoo-user] Removing broken symbolic links

2003-07-04 Thread Erik S. Johansen
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find . -type l | while read ln; do if [ \! -s $ln ];then echo $ln; fi; done

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On Friday 04 July 2003 22:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello.
>
> What is an easy way of finding and removing broken
> links in a given directory?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Removing broken symbolic links

2003-07-04 Thread romildo
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:25:00PM +0300, Erik S. Johansen wrote:
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> find . -type l | while read ln; do if [ \! -s $ln ];then echo $ln; fi; done
> 
> On Friday 04 July 2003 22:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > What is an easy way of finding and removing broken
> > links in a given directory?

Thanks for the tip.

Just a small question: is there any reason to escape the
negation operator (\!) of the test?

Romildo
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